caption Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. source Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Berggruen Institute Life is good for Evan Spiegel. In 2017, he was given a $800 million bonus for taking his company, Snap Inc., public at a $33 billion valuation. Snap’s shares have since taken quite the hit, but Spiegel’s net worth is still around $2.7 billion, making the 28-year-old one of the youngest billionaires in the world. Spiegel also took home the title of highest-paid CEO in the world in 2017. Things seem good at home, too: Spiegel is married to model and entrepreneur Miranda Kerr, and the couple welcomed their first child – a baby boy named Hart – earlier this year. To get a better picture of how Evan Spiegel got to where he is, we’ve pulled the highlights from profiles by LA Weekly, Forbes, Business Insider, court documents, and more. Here’s how Spiegel got his start and became one of the youngest billionaires in the world. Alex Heath … [Read more...] about The life and career rise of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, one of the youngest billionaires in the world
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WATCH: Artist shares how to build a career from doodling
WATCH: Artist shares how to build a career from doodling MANILA, Philippines — Besides cheating, many kids are guilty of a school “crime”: doodling on their notebooks instead of listening to teachers. But for Filipino artist Tippy Go, what started as a hobby to kill time became a livelihood. Go, who goes by the Instagram handle Googly Gooeys, recently shared to Philstar.com how she became one of the country’s most successful doodle artists – and how anyone with the same passion can achieve the same success. Go was among the artists featured in the recent SM Stationery Art Fest, which included workshops from other artists representing brands such as Pilot Pens, Faber-Castell, Sakura, Dong-A,Ifex, Frixion Pastel, Tokyo Finds, and Elmers. For the back-to-school season, these brands offer innovations such as eco-friendly and recyclable coloring tools, gel ink paintbrush pentel pens, calligraphy art sets, and highlighters … [Read more...] about WATCH: Artist shares how to build a career from doodling
WATCH: Artist shares how to build career on doodling
WATCH: Artist shares how to build career on doodling MANILA, Philippines — Besides cheating, many kids are guilty of a school “crime”: doodling on their notebooks instead of listening to teachers. But for Filipino artist Tippy Go, what started as a hobby to kill time became a livelihood. Go, who goes by the Instagram handle Googly Gooeys, recently shared to Philstar.com how she became one of the country’s most successful doodle artists – and how anyone with the same passion can achieve the same success. Go was among the artists featured in the recent SM Stationery Art Fest, which included workshops from other artists representing brands such as Pilot Pens, Faber-Castell, Sakura, Dong-A,Ifex, Frixion Pastel, Tokyo Finds, and Elmers. For the back-to-school season, these brands offer innovations such as eco-friendly and recyclable coloring tools, gel ink paintbrush pentel pens, calligraphy art sets, and highlighters with … [Read more...] about WATCH: Artist shares how to build career on doodling
CSR education grantees breach 440,000 mark
Total beneficiaries from the education projects of Aboitiz Foundation increased by 34 percent in 2017 from the previous year’s 329,963 grantees. For its thrust to provide quality and accessible public education for the Filipino youth, the figure manifested 441,840 students received assistance from all over the Philippines in 2017. High school scholars pose for posterity after the culmination of career clinic organized by the foundation and Edukasyon.ph A total of 1,015 education-related projects were implemented by the Aboitiz Foundation, the corporate foundation of the Aboitiz Group, as well as by various companies in the industries of power, banking and financial services, food, infrastructure, land, and construction “The Aboitiz Foundation commits to continuously find better ways to help Filipino students to either study further, set up businesses, or be employed. We are proud of our accomplishments in education in 2017. These serve as our inspiration and our … [Read more...] about CSR education grantees breach 440,000 mark
Art Fair PH 2018 zooms in on photography
To increase awareness for photography as a form of contemporary art and to expand its collectability among Filipinos, Art Fair Philippines 2018, is set to shine the spotlight on “ArtFairPH/Photo.” Neal Oshima, one of the foremost practitioners in contemporary Philippine photography, will present “Kin,” an exhibit of new works that pay visual tribute to Philippine tribes and indigenous traditions. He also collaborates with Angel Velasco Shaw for another exhibit within the fair’s photography component, titled “Provocations,” which intends to show a range of established and emerging documentary photographers. ArtFairPH/Photo will also feature works of Filipino-Catalan photographer Eduardo Masferre, to be organized by 1335 Mabini. From 1934 to 1956, Masferre recorded in images the way of life of indigenous people of the Cordillera Mountains such as the Bontok, Kankana-ey, Kalinga, Gaddang, and Ifugao. Selected photographs from Swiss private bank … [Read more...] about Art Fair PH 2018 zooms in on photography